Re: tramp and ssh-agent / ssh-add

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>> D'accord. But Roland has the use case to run Emacs on a remote
>> host. He even doesn't start ssh-agent there, which would do the
>> job.
>
> Sorry for the confusion. Typically, I do something like
>
> ssh -t winkler@foo.org ssh-agent emacs
>
> So my remote session is only emacs under an ssh-agent. I would like
> to be able to run ssh-add from within the remote emacs iff ssh-add
> is needed because I want to establish a connection to yet some other
> host(s). (Of course, locally I am using shh-agent and ssh-add, too.
> Yet that helps me only for the ssh connections that I do starting
> from localhost.)
>

Why do you ssh to the remote box and run emacs? There are good reasons
to do this, but with things like tramp, its not necessary in many
cases. 

While I don't need to do it now, I use to run emacs locally and use
tramp to do a multi-hop connection and edit files on a system at work
that was behind a firewall that could be accessed only from my work
desktop, which I could access via ssh. 

This was over a 56k modem and it worked just fine. Now I have DSL, but I
still run things locally and use tramp to access files remotely. I also
use sshfs a bit, which is very useful.

Tim


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